Background
Zimbabwe has over 200 000 teachers who can potentially pool resources and invest in viable business opportunities available in the country and abroad. Teachers have catapulted many companies unto multi-million business entities yet their lives remain marginalized and impoverished. Educators have not benefited much from the skewed supplier-clientele relationship with capitalistic business entities in the country. Its high time teachers unite and organize themselves into a formidable business force capable of displacing and replacing these business entities exploiting the economically defenseless teacher. Teachers have been disenfranchised to beneficially participate in the mainstream economy and contribute towards attainment of broader national goals. There is indeed great potential imprisoned in classrooms that ought to be liberated and emancipated.
...Trust History
Amid limitations by the labour front to address key challenges confronting the teacher in and outside the classroom, economic collectivism presented itself as the only viable alternative capable of changing the fortunes of educators in the country. The first group of inspired teachers gathered in Harare Gardens on 01 December 2018 to strategize the formation of an empowerment movement that would represent teachers on the economic front.Among a plethora of considered approaches, a trust was deemed the most appropriate to achieve desired goals. A resolution was then passed to register an investment trust at the inaugural meeting attended by 6 members. An executive committee was then formed to spearhead registration of the Trust and mobilization of membership in all provinces.
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